Russian Filenames
 

Hey, I'm trying to assist a professor with this very curious problem... he has many AVI files named in Cyrillic which cannot be played in Winamp.

Here's the kicker though: if he replaces so much as 1 character with an English character, the file will play even though the rest of the title contains Russian.

Any thoughts? I believe he's using the latest version.

Thanks!

Are they all AVI?
Have him try files of a different encoding of cyrillic files.

mp3 and m4a work fine for my Russian songs.

A good chunk of his audio library is in Cyrillic as well, but this is in iTunes. He uses WinAmp for his video only, so I we didn't bother trying anything else in Cyrillic. But I think it'd be safe to assume the same thing would happen, since this seems to have to do with the file name.

Can you post an example file name? C:\ДЕЖД.avi worked just fine. This may not be a good test because I know no Russian, I had to get those chars from Character Map.

The information required when posting would also be useful. Certainly check for old third-party plugins because many of them seem to break unicode support in various places.

Sorry, didn't see that information post. I do have a HijackThis log if that could be useful; I have the impression it doesn't have to do with a WinAmp plugin, since the same problem occurs in Quicktime. I figured this problem would be easier to resolve through WinAmp, which is what he wants to use anyway.

As far as examples go: карпеливич.avi will not work, while Kкарпеливич.avi WILL work. Notice the beginning K's have been changed. Very subtle, but changed playability.